Conspiracy theories / by Micah L. Issitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Issitt, Micah L., author.

Series:

Opinions throughout history.

Opinions throughout history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conspiracy theories--United States--History.

Conspiracy theories.

United States.

Genre:

Reference works.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xli, 718 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Opinions Throughout History

Place of Publication:

Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book looks at the unfolding of some of the biggest conspiracy theories in the history of America--from the assassination of JFK, to the alleged links between vaccines and autism, to QAnon and the imagined pedophilia ring of the "deep state." Looking deeper into the origins and development of these theories will reveal how fear and mistrust have shaped American popular culture and continue to shape attitudes about the perceived secret nature of America, and the world.

Contents:

Introduction

Historical Timeline

Revolutionary Conspiracies : conspiracy in the Revolutionary Era (1760-1798)

Illuminating Mythology : the Illuminati in reality and fantasy (1776-present)

The Boys' Club : the Freemasons and the Anti-Freemason movement (1820-present)

The Popish plots : fear of Romanism and the power of the papacy (1830-present)

Think of the children : Catholic abuse and sexual perversion in conspiracy theories (1836-present)

A deadly fear : the origin of the anti-vaccination movement (1879-present)

The goldg gamblers : the Populist Party and the international gold ring (1895-present)

The myths of Zion : Jewish conspiracies and the threat of Zionism (1903-present)

Anti-capitalism : the Anarchist movement and the threat to capitalism (1901-present)

The new world order : the first Red Scare and the new world order (1915-present)

Denying Genocide : Holocaust denial in the past and present (1941-present)

Fears of the establishment : The Red Scare and McCarthyism (1945-present)

Psychological warfare : U.S. drug experimentation (1953-present)

Desert visions : Area 51 and the alien conspiracies (1955-present)

The Umbrella Man : Kennedy assassination conspiracies (1963-present)

Death of a dream : conspiracies of the Civil Rights Movement (1968-present)

Bad Moon rising : the Moon landing hoax (1969-present)

The October surprise : the Reagan era and the Iran conspiracy (1980-present)

Satanic influence : spiritualism, Satanism, and the 1980s Satanist scare (1980-present)

The Gay plague : conspiracy theories about HIV/AIDS (1981-present)

An existential threat : the conspiracy to sow doubt about climate change (1996-present)

Spectrum of distrust : the vaccine autism scare (1998-present)

Cold-blooded politics : the reptile conspiracy (1999-present)

The three towers : conspiracy theories about 9/11 (2001-present)

Gun control as a conspiracy : the Sandy Hook Massacre and the gun control movement (2012-present)

How not to protect children : the QAnon movement (2017-present)

The conspiracy pandemic : the COVID pandemic and science denial (2019-present)

The Big Lie : the 2020 presidential election controversy (2020-present)

Conclusion : flattening the Earth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781637005187

1637005180

OCLC:

1370526962